Name That Trauma :: Reader Josh D. on a Wedded Witch

I was reading a post about the burnt Spider-Man, which reminded me of another movie around the same time that was very traumatic, to me at least, I was eight at the time. A man was married to a woman he believed to be a witch, or something along these lines, and he spends the movie trying to prove to others that she is, in fact a witch.

The scene that was so terrifying to my eight-year-old brain was the man walking into an upstairs room walking up on a rocking chair, in the same vein as PSYCHO, thinking he is approaching someone else, turning the chair and finding his witch/wife sitting there instead. He is startled to the point of backing himself out of a window and falling to his death.

Thirty years later and the images are fuzzy, but they gave me nightmares at the time. I thought ROBERT CONRAD played the unfortunate husband but a glance at IMDb didn’t uncover anything.

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I agree with unkle. That’s Burnt Offerings for sure. Except I was never sure if Oliver Reed fell out of the window, or was thrown. And, as a side note: When Ollie smashed into the car’s windshield, all bloody and stuff, who was the actor playing his son traumatized by the event? Why none other than Lee H. Montgomery, co-star of MUTANT!

I was the manger of a movie theater way back when and showed this. I always snuck into the theater at the end just to watch the people scream. That film (and CARRIE) were great fun for we movie theater types —